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Looks to me that he's become tired of being messed around by timewasters and unfortunately he's letting it show. I would never write an ad like that but I can sympathise a little bit.

The problem I have with Bandmix is when I search for bands looking for bass players, half the results that come back the bands are looking for every single category of musician on the site. I also find it more difficult to use since they updated the site a couple years ago.

Speakers and amp in the airing cupboard, two basses under the bed and one bass on a stand in the living room.

34 this year, down from 50 or so in the previous couple years. This was a band decision because we all felt it was getting a bit much.

My band's setup time is nearly always five minutes longer than needed for a 9pm start. So if we arrive at 7.30 pm we'll be ready at 9.05, if we arrive at 8pm we'll be ready at 9.05, some band members just use whatever time we have to faff around instead of getting the job done.

[color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Looking forward to playing tonight after a month's break and it gets cancelled with three hours notice because the new management have decided not to have live music. Not happy.[/font][/color]

Completely agree with you

For pub gigs we normally finish setting up and soundchecking around 30 seconds before we're due to start, so we look at our watches, say " right, let's start ", drummer counts in the first song, at which point one or both of our singers will decide they need to go to the loo/get a drink/sort out their lyrics/send an urgent text message, so the rest of us just stand there looking stupid until they've sorted themselves out, drummer counts us in again and off we go! Completely amateurish but no-one in the band apart from me and the drummer seems that bothered about it.

can't believe it's only just gone nine and I'm back from my gig already. We were the opening band at a soul music festival in Dunstable, played for an hour from 6.30 to 7.30, got paid more than we usually get for a standard pub gig plus free food too.

If several band members need to come in in the right place, do they need to queue for a cue?

Does your singer understand beats and bars?

[quote name='King Tut' timestamp='1495829807' post='3306980'] The Kings Arms in Houghton Regis. Played a couple of years ago on the saturday b4 christmas. Had a tiny set up area in front of the entrance to the loos. A lot of the people were paralytic, several fights were on the verge of erupting and it was all just very intimidating. Some of my mates have had good gigs there but I vowed not to go back. Felt very uncomfortable. [/quote] My band has a regular gig there, the first time we played there was pretty much as you described but since then it's got better and we usually have a good gig. The idea is that the punters use the loos in the other bar once the band has set up but you always get some moron trying to use them even though all the amps and drums are in the way.

I've had tinnitus in my left ear for around five years now but either it's not constant or I don't notice it all the time. One thing guaranteed to start it up is reading a thread about it on Basschat.

Our band is called 360 because the cost of hiring a rehearsal room came to £3.60 each.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1487789178' post='3242963'] It's the whole misappropriation of genres titles. To me, R'n'B is late 40s/50s stuff, like Ray Charles, Bo Diddley and to an extent the white British derivation in bands like The Who and early Rolling Stones. The stuff my parents listened to. TLC and Rhianna are not R'n'B. And don't get me started on Garage. [/quote] I think the difference is that in America R'n'B kept evolving, with the Rihanna stuff being one of the results, whereas white British R'n'B evolved into Dr.Feelgood and then stopped

Female fronted pop covers veering towards soul & disco. Great fun

My band usually does around 50 gigs a year , so far we have 33 booked for this year plus we've played three already. We should pick up more gigs as we go along so I'm expecting to end up doing around 50 again.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1484742003' post='3217949'] I had that problem, then realised it was at the top of the original ticket page, not on the payment page where I expected it! [/quote] Found it!

only problem I had was I followed the link and coudn't see where to enter the discount code.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1483783142' post='3210026'] Am I reading this wrong, or is the burden still very much on the venue to mask their noise (at considerable or even, as often in the past, bankrupting cost), rather than on the developer to cater for it in his design/construction? The phrase "appropriate mitigation" is a bit ominous. [/quote] I read it that the 'appropriate mitigation' should be the developer's responsibility [i]appropriate mitigation including designing the new development to reduce the impact of noise from the local environment and optimising the sound insulation provided by the building envelope. [/i]

Nice!

Going to have an interesting gig on Christmas eve. Our new drummer was already booked elsewhere so we have a dep lined up. We usually have two female vocalists but one is going away for Christmas so we decided to do the gig with one singer who has just pulled out due to illness. We've just found a dep singer so on Saturday there will be four of us and only me and the guitarist will have met each other before.

Had a very rare Sunday gig last night, started at 6 and finished at 9. Didn't look very promising to start with, audience barely into double figures including one guy with several bags of shopping who left just before the break and reached into one of his bags and gave our singers a box of chocolates on his way out. After finishing off the chocs we started the second set and almost on cue the place started filling up, lots of dancing and we ended up having a great gig.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1478004908' post='3165882'] It's the musicians curse. Once you learn an instrument you will be forever listening to what it is doing during a piece of music. The best producers and musicians are those that can rise above this point and go back to listening to music in the same way as a non musician does. [/quote] Interesting point. I quite often find myself analysing a song rather than listening to it for enjoyment and I have to make a deliberate decision to change back to listening just to enjoy the song.

My band gigs most weekends so the assumption is that we are always available unless we tell our bandleader otherwise. Most gigs are booked far enough in advance so we can organize a dep if necessary.